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Unique Right Hand "Plucked" Harmonics

Here’s a lesson that offers a true, and in my opinion, better way of playing harmonics with the right hand. It dispels the usual “classical” way that is taught for these right-hand harmonics, and gives us a position that is much closer, physically, to how we normally pick the guitar in the first place.

Interestingly enough, the other person I ever saw who used this right hand harmonic technique was the late, great bassist, Jaco Pastorius, who like me, plucked the string with his index finger, while the thumb created the actual harmonic directly ahead of the index finger. Give it a try, and you never know, this may become your new approach to right hand harmonic playing!—Arlen Roth

Music lesson pioneer Arlen Roth is the quintessential guitarist. An accomplished and brilliant musician — and one of the very few who can honestly say he’s done it all — Roth has, over the course of his celebrated 35-year career, played on the world’s grandest stages, accompanied many of the greatest figures in modern music and revolutionized the concept of teaching guitar. Read More...